0 present participle of compensate
1 to pay someone money in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem:
2 to provide something good or useful in place of something or to make someone feel better about something that has failed or been lost or missed:
Assimilation refers to strategies aimed at optimizing resources, or compensating for losses or declines in domains that are central to the individual's self-esteem and identity.
The recognition of difference, for example by compensating women for carework, may end up reinforcing traditional gender divisions.
Practical methods for compensating for missed treatment days in radiotherapy, with particular reference to head and neck schedules.
Thus, the compensating differential is lower current pay in exchange for deferred retirement income.
The subsidy may therefore be an inefficient means of compensating federal employees.
Some are characterised by industrial dereliction with little compensating access to cultural centres.
Contrary to expectation, however, income is not found to delay orientation by compensating for the loss of comfort.
Although normally non-decisions do not attract a lot of popular attention, not compensating low-income households for dramatic rent increases would probably have done just that.
